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Flying visit to Sheffield for a half day on 'AI in GLAMs' - nice to make old and new connections to folk - and now heading back to London for a fabulous evening book launch with artists and their things! https://courtaul…

"Artists' Things" Cornelia Parker and Christopher Le Brun in conversation with Katie Scott and Hannah Williams
Artists Cornelia Parker and Christopher Le Brun join Katie Scott and Hannah Williams for an in conversation on the role of the objects they possess and consume, in their creative lives and at their studios, and how these relate to preoccupations and exchanges with their practice

Journalist groups welcome Hong Kong including a public interest defense for people charged with offences related to state secrets in a domestic security bill (Sammy Heung/South China Morning Post)
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Hong Kong adds public interest defence for state secret crimes to Article 23 bill
While journalist groups welcome inclusion of clause, one raises concerns threshold for defence might be too high.

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Love it.
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/action/hi-fi-rush-dev-hits-back-at-microsoft-exec-calling-for-more-award-winning-games-with-their-own-awards-not-enough/…

Hi-Fi Rush dev hits back at Microsoft exec calling for more award-winning games with their own awards: "Not enough?"
The comment certainly raised eyebrows

"Why Jesus Never Ate a Banana"
What a funny headline. Then I read that article and it's really interesting!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/food-origins-map

Why Jesus Never Ate a Banana
About 69 percent of the global diet is "foreign," says a study that pinpoints the origin of 151 food crops.

Christie's experienced a "technology security issue" that took its website down and affected some systems, ahead of auctions that are expected to generate $840M (Zachary Small/New York Times)
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Christie’s Website Is Brought Down by Hackers Days Before $840 Million Auctions
The auctioneer’s website was taken offline on Thursday evening and remained down on Friday, days before its spring auctions were set to begin.

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Apple researchers publish a paper on Ferret-UI, a multimodal LLM tailored for enhanced understanding of mobile UI screens (Malcolm Owen/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/09/apples-new-ai-model-could-help-siri…

Ferret-UI may help Siri understand iOS app interfaces
Apple's Ferret LLM could help allow Siri to understand the layout of apps in an iPhone display, potentially increasing the capabilities of Apple's digital assistant.

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted